Improved appaeatus foe the manufactdee of vinegae



MakingT Vinegar. No. 67,909. Patented Aug. 20g-,1867. A

l @uiten gratte giet-tnt @ffice JOHN ,RICHARD son, or NEW H Aven, coNNEofmoUT.r

l Letters .Patent llol 67,9()9, dated August 20, 1867.

IMPROVED` APPARATUS FOB. THBMANUIAGTURE 0F VINBGAR.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be itrknown that I, JOHN RICHARDSQN, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven, and -State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Apparatus for the Manufacture of Vinegar; and Ido hereby declare the following, when taken in connection'with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of `the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, inp Figure 1, a sectional view of thel three tanks and their connection, with my improvement attached to illustrate the process, and in Y Figure 2 a top view of the generator with my improvement` 4 This invention relates to -an improvement in the apparatus in common use, whereby it is made self-feeding, and consists in the arrangement of a self-dumping bucket within the generator, or so as at the proper time to empty itself into the generator. I

In order to the clear understanding of my improvement, I will proceed to describe the-same as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is the reservoir, B the generator, and C the receiver, arranged usually upon iloors one above the other, as in the drawing. The generatorB is a tank having a perforated plate, a, set alittle distance above the bottom b, and above, at suitable distance, a second perforated plate, c, is placed, and the space D between the two perforated plates is filled with shavings or other material to facilitate the process of making the vinegar. From the generator B a conductor leads to the receiver C. It is necessary, in pouring the Huid to beiturned into vinegar into the generator, that it be distributed over the surface of the upper plate, and this must be done by pouring large quantities at intervals. This has heretofore been done by hand, drawing the Huid from the tank A into a common hand-bucket, and by hand pouring' it into the generator, the Huid passing` down through the material -D into the receiver C.

,To avoid this hand labor isthe object of my invention. I arrange 'a bucket, E, upon pivotsf, and constructed as seen in iig. 1, so that when lled to a certain point itwill tilt as denoted in red, and pour its contents into the generator, and from the tank A a conductor, F, leads to the said bucket, and is gauged so as to iill'thc bucket to the point of tilting at the proper time, and thus arranged the apparatus may be left to take care of itself, and the services of the hand which had before supplied the generator are dispensed with, and the manufacture is continued whether personally attended or not. This arrangement, though designed especially for the manufacture of vine-gar, may be employed for other purposes. i

Having thus fully described my invention, wh`at I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l The arrangement of the self-dumping bucket, so as to operate to empty into the igenerator, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. Enum, A. J. Timms. 

